Sunday, April 23, 2017

We
went on many excursions within the city, including Notre Dame, the Louvre –
the picture on the left shows Rachel and me with the Winged Victory and some of
the other thousands of people who were there that day –and
the Paris ‘beach’ on the Seine, built for people who couldn’t get to the real
French beaches on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.One evening we were invited to a garden
party at the home of one of our guides in a suburb on the outskirts of Paris.
The food was marvelous and the entertainment incredible. First, all the kids
were taught how to paint ‘just like Monet,’ then a magician mystified us
all. We were told he was just for the
kids, but he was really good and I don’t think anyone figured out any of his
illusions. Rachel and I certainly didn’t.

About Me

Charlene Brown is a Canadian painter who started writing about painting trips during the ten years she and her husband lived in Dubai. The Gulf Weekly began publishing her accounts of painting trips in that part of the Arabian peninsula -- then said they might consider other countries, even such exotic locations as Canada! She had written about painting trips in over twenty countries by the time her husband retired and they returned to Canada to live.